For those of you who are
curious about Frank Trzaska here is the page to read. I was told this is
supposed to be on every writers web page so I had to make one.
To be quite candid it is harder to write this then most of the articles I have
written. I am truly boring, spending most of my free time reading and
researching knives, history and biographies. I have a real job that pays the
bills around here. I have been in heavy truck and equipment maintenance
professionally now for 40 years. I originally started writing about knives to
keep my thoughts and notes in order. It would have been easier to buy a bigger
filing cabinet. It was also very personal, I didn't do too well in English
class at school. (I still can't tell you what an adverb is or a verb for that
matter, a preposition is completely out of my league.) I loved History class but detested English, well at least the English they
taught. That one stumped me early on, why did I need an English class, I spoke
it every day? You see I write like I speak, a very simple philosophy. I have these
thoughts that just pop into my head, that's my inspiration in writing, very
simple actually, I write what I feel like, when I feel like it. The subjects
are varied but they usually sway back to the intended subject, much like this
piece is going. My favorite outdoor recreations include hunting, shooting,
hiking and just generally being in the woods, you see I am a country boy. I
have outgrown the fast cars and crotch rocket motorcycles, but they still
linger in my blood, when I hear the roar, or smell the rubber, my mind drifts
off into another place, I suppose that never leaves you, it's in the blood. I
do have a motorcycle just not a speed demon one, keeps me happy and my summers full.
We also have a boat to squeeze into the summer days as well. I have spent much of
my active working life in the big Eastern seaboard cities of New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Atlanta but that doesn't mean I like them,
that's just where the largest customer base is for my real job. We currently
reside in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey after moving up and down the
coast for a few years. We are back in the same town we started in and hope it
to be the last move, I have learned to never say never. Married to my high
school sweetheart, Karen, for 39 years, we have two children, Jake and
Lauren and two Grandsons Rhett and Nash.

A list of my published
articles on knives is listed below. We will not list the company newsletters,
professional journals, "letters to the editors" of various
newspapers, "op ed" pieces, and the countless "Freedom of
Information Act" letters sent over the years which could be in the
running for a Pulitzer or at least an Academy Award, hell they gave one to
Jane so I figure anyone could get one right? Anyway those FOIA letters can get
pretty fancy at times and the op ed pieces need to use words I can only figure
out by looking to Mr. Roget's Thesaurus for help. If you don't use a few
twelve letter words they don't want them in the intellectual section of the
papers. See how that one was skillfully woven in there! Well here is that list
we were talking about.

Articles currently in progress, soon in a theater
near you. If you can add to the research on any of these current topics please
e-mail me at trz123@comcast.net

USN Deep Diving Knives

TL29

Mark 2 Sheaths

M1887 HCK

Survival Tools

M1917 Cutlass

FS and the Rangers

PAL Blade Co., the War Years

Camillus and Liberty Electric Co. E1 Escape Knives

Marbles of WW II

USN Mk1 & Mk2 machetes

LC-14B

Nguyen Dan

We also have the website you are now in.
Started many years ago as a place to put some thoughts it has attracted
Writers, Historians, Collectors and Users from every corner of the Globe. It
has grown more then I could have ever imagined and is read (and copied much to
my dismay) by hundreds of thousands each month. We do not advertise in any
forms anywhere, it is all word of mouth. We have held off putting ads in the
site although we have been pursued. We do not sell mailing lists or click
information, it is all supported from book sales and document copies.

We have what I consider the best writers,
researchers and historians in the business right here and are always looking
to add information on US Military Edged Weapons and Tools.

Stick around, it's been one hell of a ride
and hopefully many more years to go!